Abstract Utility Data Center (UDC) provides a exible, coste ective infrastructure to support the hosting of applications for Internet services. In order to enable the design of a \...
— Spectrum scarcity is becoming a major issue for service providers interested in either deploying new services or enhancing the capacity for existing applications. On the other ...
— Advance reservation is a mechanism to guarantee the availability of resources when they are needed. In the context of LambdaGrid, this mechanism is used to provide data-intensi...
The advent of emerging technologies such as Web services, service-oriented architecture, and cloud computing has enabled us to perform business services more efficiently and effect...
The planning and management of supply chains require properly specifying the participating members and the relationships among them. Construction supply chains usually consist of n...
Jack C. P. Cheng, Kincho H. Law, Hans Bjornsson, A...